From the time I started understanding and as far as I can remember, my mother was and still is a tailor or designer : call it whatever you want as far as am concerned, she makes clothes...lol, My siblings and I have learned and adopted so much of her skills and traits, we often talk like her, cook like she does,and now that am a mother, I find myself behaving like her and the most interesting part is that we all love clothes like her, mum makes most of the clothes she wears and like her, sometimes we make our clothes, this my younger sister does for a living too. My brother took a slightly different path, he does décor and I love bead work, sequins, motifs and the like and living life with her has so much influenced the way we live. We have watched her make patterns and all the magic she does while making her customers' clothes which range from simple dresses to wedding gowns and yes I said gowns, she made both my gowns and also made for a friend of mine ( Victory Torach) and very many other people.
Please note, mum has never intentionally purposed to teach us how to make clothes but we know how to do it anyway. I did bead work on my gowns for my wedding, the maids dresses and the flower girls dresses not because she taught me how to but because I saw her do it and I would love to say that most of life's lessons are learned from what we see for example most people from broken families detest marriage because of what they saw not because of what they hear or heard and what am I saying, DISCIPLESHIP;
Discipleship is life on life... Matthew 28:18-20
18. And Jesus came and spoke to them, saying, All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. 19. Go ye therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the father and of the son and of the Holy Spirit, 20. teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and Lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age. Amen. Jesus commissioned his disciples( US) to go and make disciples of all nations; to live like Christ lived among them, to do what he did and more in the character and competence of him. I guess Jesus was sure they will do it not because of what he may have said to them at the time but because they lived life with him and had seen him do it, he had discipled them. So... How much of what God is saying are we obeying because discipleship, if it has to be in the character and competence of Christ then we have to get/ receive from him, grow into it and that, that is what we give, we will be Christ- like if we have to make disciples of all nations...so, how much of him reflects in us because it's this fruit that our disciples will do or be. An apple doesn't fall far from its tree. John 10:37... Verse 37." If I do not the works of my father, believe me not." by now and am hoping that we especially me can confidently say this not because of our works but because of what he did and that it's not what we say lest it becomes a Chinese whisper but what we do...what we do matters, it speaks volumes... And hence Christ - like disciples.
Remember, FRUIT doesn't lie.
What is Jesus saying to you?
What are you going to do about it?
